FireMon Security Manager vs Fortinet FortiGate Cloud comparison

FireMon and Fortinet are both solutions in the Firewall Security Management category. FireMon is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.0, while Fortinet is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.4. FireMon holds a 17.9% mindshare in Firewall Security Management, compared to Fortinet’s 4.7% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of FireMon users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Fortinet users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

FireMon Security Manager and Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are competitors in the network security and firewall management category. FireMon seems to have an edge for organizations keen on policy optimization and compliance, while Fortinet stands out for its integration and hybrid deployment flexibility.

Features: FireMon Security Manager excels in firewall policy management with features like Rule Optimization, Risk Analyzer, and proactive security intelligence. It identifies redundant rules and conducts compliance checks, supporting multiple firewall brands. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud emphasizes central management for distributed networks, offering SD-WAN, VPN management, and integration with Fortinet tools for enhanced threat intelligence and incident management.

Room for Improvement: FireMon could enhance network mapping and ease of use during upgrades. It lacks seamless firewall change implementation and needs improved alerting and reporting. Fortinet faces issues with integration, update bugs, and requires enhancements in the command-line interface. Licensing discipline, pricing strategies, customization, and support responsiveness need attention for both solutions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: FireMon Security Manager is primarily on-premises, praised for reliable support and training. Its support team is responsive and experienced. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud offers deployment versatility across hybrid and public clouds, beneficial for multi-regional needs, yet its support is sometimes slower compared to FireMon.

Pricing and ROI: FireMon Security Manager is considered expensive but provides a good ROI through automation and security enhancements. Despite high costs, it delivers customer satisfaction. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is seen as more affordable, offering lower initial costs. However, additional costs for features can be burdensome. Both solutions exhibit value for money, with FireMon's pricing reflecting a robust feature set and FortiGate's strategy targeting broader market access.

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Categories and Ranking

FireMon Security Manager

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Fortinet FortiGate Cloud

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of FireMon Security Manager is 17.9%, up from 16.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is 4.7%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ganesh-Khutwad

Senior Network Specialist at Tech Mahindra Limited

Rapid policy insights with robust dashboards and cross-vendor automation

FireMon Security Manager is excellent for real-time compliance management. It allows us to quickly retrieve any policy needed for testing and easily analyze it for loopholes. If a loophole exists, FireMon provides comprehensive details within the policy manager. It alerts us to firewall rule additions or changes that violate compliance policies. It supports various firewall platforms, including Checkpoint, Zscaler, Fortinet, Cisco, and AWS, and provides centralized management for all configured policies through a single console. FireMon Security Manager provides many features, like whether my firewall is compatible with required standards such as NTP and SNMP. Each compliance included in our RFPs is shown in the UI of FireMon. It gives robust and clear dashboards, making it easier to understand risks because the policies have ratings showing usage, and the number of hit attacks. It streamlines our compliance reporting processes by providing comprehensive risk and compliance assessments. It offers a range of features, including verification of firewall compatibility with protocols like NTP and SNMP, and detection of signal charges. FireMon effectively addresses all compliance requirements outlined in our RFPs. For instance, it can determine if firewalls or proxies within a stack are configured in Secure Mode or Active-Active mode. FireMon Security Manager enables us to generate reports on all these aspects, ensuring thorough compliance monitoring and documentation. FireMon Security Manager is robust and can help automate firewall policy changes across large multi-vendor enterprise environments. FireMon Security Manager helps automate firewall policy changes across various environments, including on-premises, cloud, hybrid, SASE, and SD-WAN. It also simplifies cleaning up firewall rules in our environment. The time required to accurately create, approve, and deploy firewall policy rules has been reduced. Tasks that took 30 minutes can now be completed in just five minutes using FireMon. FireMon provides immediate visibility into our policies through a robust and clear dashboard, making it easy to identify errors or misconfigurations based on the policy rating.

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Martin Ellmann

Chief Executive Officer at EE Solutions GmbH

Offers users with a clear-to-understand functionalities

Integrating the tool with other solutions is very easy, so there is no problem with the product. I suggest other people take the best from the product since it is a really good solution. I would not change to a different product extension from Fortinet FortiGate Cloud as it makes you feel safe. If a customer wants to save his or her company, then it is better to get Fortinet FortiGate Cloud because it is one of the best solutions with which you can manage everything, like access points, switches, VLANs, and splitting of NAT, from one place. You can do it all from one point. With FortiGate, you can manage the VLANs, and you have them in every place, every switch, and every port. You can select the VLAN and the tool works. If Fortinet can become better, then it is even better. I rate the tool a ten out of ten.

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Pros

"In one report, FireMon tells us there are, say, 1,000 rules that can be taken out and it gives us the ability to disable those for a year and to track when we made our changes. After a year, we can go back and eliminate the rules, to bring the configuration down to an almost human-readable level."

"The most valuable feature is the Firewall reviews for our company compliance."

"The most valuable feature is the reporting capability because everything that we do is a result of our being able to query a report, based on our environment and our PCI compliance efforts."

"Its user-friendly interface allows for easy viewing and searching of network policies, including proxies, all on one console."

"It provides us with a single pane of glass for our on-prem environment, to see configuration. We have not implemented into the cloud yet. We can search for an object group and see where it lives on any firewall in the enterprise or find security rules, no matter what firewall they're on."

"It gives us the ability to go to one place to look for potential firewall rules that are inappropriate, or which don't meet compliance. Instead of manually searching hundreds of firewalls for a policy, we can go to this one location and find the rules which are now out of compliance."

"The ease of use is the most valuable feature. There are a lot of products out there, but the ability to navigate through and use Firemon is very good."

"Vendor agnostic when it comes to integrating with other product."

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"The product's valuable features include network management and switching devices from anywhere."

"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has valuable firewall, SSL VPN, and web filtering features."

"The Fortianalyzer is the most valuable aspect of this solution"

"The template will save time from being wasted on load balancing."

"The most valuable feature is the inspection. It inspects before we have any traffic stops intrusion."

"I find it particularly helpful for certificate inspection and setting up anti-DDoS, intrusion prevention, antivirus, and file inspection policies."

"The solution is scalable because they have models that allow it to be right sized."

"The solution's most valuable feature is log reporting. It has a wide range of products for small, medium, and enterprise customers. The tool is very user-friendly and straightforward, which sets them apart from other vendors. It also has good integration with other solutions."

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Cons

"Its reporting can be improved. I am the only one who works a lot with it, and I am having problems in terms of reporting. In the case of Palo Alto, I'm okay with it, but with some of the Cisco devices, such as routers, when I provide the reports to other teams for review, they always say that the hit count is incorrect. So, I was struggling for a long time to work with them. When working with other teams, they have a lot of questions about reporting, such as how it reports, and we are still struggling with that."

"The issue for me started with Fortinet not being able to see things correctly. It lost its appeal in terms of what it could do for me from a security standpoint, so I do not pay as much attention to it."

"We've had recurring issues managing FireMon's internal backups. Sometimes, the space allocated for the backup is full, and there is no process where it deletes files that are older than I certain date. It's just waiting for the storage to get full and then it's cleaned up. It isn't something that creates serious issues for us."

"Our firewalls have multiple paths through them and FireMon falls short a little bit because it's not Palo Alto-centric. I don't think FireMon has kept up with where Palo Alto is at. They started out being Check Point-centric for years and they've never really fully embraced the nuances others, like Palo Alto or Fortinet, have. They don't handle a lot of the capabilities and attributes that Palo Alto does yet. They're working on it. They're getting there."

"The support response time has room for improvement."

"The initial setup can take some time, including connecting it and configuring it. It's not something that is easy for anybody to do. There is time and energy required because of the number of systems you have to configure to get it to work properly."

"I think that having a more open system and providing documentation for it would be helpful for users like us. We are pretty adept and can navigate through the Linux software that the on-premises FireMon is based on. It would help us in the long run."

"Some of the things that you want to do in FireMon are not exactly straightforward, like creating certain reports or controls. Some of the functions could be a little more user-friendly, such as creating certain filters."

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"The initial setup is considered to be difficult."

"Fortinet should simplify the licensing model. It's too complex for decision-makers to choose from the range of options. Handling the pricing model is a nightmare, so it's difficult to sell the solution."

"There are European and US clouds and sometimes we mix them up. The solution should make determining the clouds more clear, or make one cloud instead of having separate ones."

"The product is not recommended on the basis of technical parameters. It is very tough to authenticate."

"The robustness of the software could be improved."

"Improving the platform's intuitiveness and consolidating functionalities, such as reporting and firewall features, could enhance user experience and reduce the need for multiple product purchases."

"Fortinet could improve FortiGate Cloud by providing better integration with third-party applications and features."

"There is room for improvement in the analytics reports. Other products in the market offer superior analytics, like a next-generation antivirus, CounterStrike, which provides excellent analytics reports."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its pricing is good. Compared to others, it is not so expensive."

"It's a good value. From a licensing standpoint... it's very simple to understand, and gives us a good bang for the buck."

"We don't license all of the devices in our network, so it does not provide us with a comprehensive visibility of all devices in a hybrid network at this time."

"Relative to what it offers, the price is fair."

"The pricing is very good, very straightforward. It also came in cheaper than AlgoSec and Tufin."

"FireMon is very expensive. I think that they charge a premium. In general, they are very pricey. Compared to their competitors, they cost a little more than the other solutions that we evaluated."

"The pricing was very good during our initial year, but they increased it this year a little bit. The price is okay. It is not cheap, but it is still average."

"Pricing model seems fair."

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"The price of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is affordable. However, lowering the price would be good for the end-users. The cost of the solution was approximately $800 per year. There are some additional features you can add in addition to the regular features."

"As with us, our customers need not pay for a license. One brings one's own."

"The solution is neither cheap nor expensive."

"The price of the product is approximately 10,000 Qatar Riyal ($2,750 USD), and another 10,000 Qatar Riyal for a three-year license."

"The product cost varies based on company budgets, but for us, it's reasonably priced considering the value it provides."

"It's relatively cheap."

"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is moderately priced. I rate Fortinet FortiGate Cloud a five out of ten for pricing."

"The license for Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is annual."

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Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

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15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about FireMon?

I like the Security Manager console where we can see any changes that have been made or pull the results of an assessment and control the policies that we implement.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FireMon?

Comparatively, FireMon has a very good price and is below the general competition in cost. I have not seen any additional fees beyond the general contract fees for the usage I have. So, I have not ...

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What needs improvement with FireMon?

For one company I work with, I use Fortinet, and FireMon is not able to understand the zones that Fortinet uses. Part of that compliance piece does not provide me with the necessary information. An...

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What do you like most about Fortinet FortiGate Cloud?

Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has valuable firewall, SSL VPN, and web filtering features.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiGate Cloud?

I am very satisfied with the price and licensing cost of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, rating it an eight out of ten.

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What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud?

The solution is a bit expensive. Pricing is the only concern as it is too expensive.

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Comparisons

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Compared 44% of the time

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Compared 37% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 77% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Overview

The increasing complexity of networks, driven by the constant influx of new devices, applications, and cloud services, presents a daunting challenge for managing firewall policies and rules. A typical enterprise environment has millions of rules, and just one simple misconfiguration can lead to devastating consequences like compliance violations, outages, and data breaches.

FireMon’s Security Manager is a purpose-built network security policy management (NSPM) platform that automates the management of firewall and cloud security policies to eliminate policy-related risk, accurately and quickly change rules, and meet internal and external compliance requirements.

Reduce Risk Manage risk with real-time visibility and control
Manage Change Avoid misconfigurations, accelerate business, and improve security
Enforce and Maintain Compliance Avoid violations, avoid risk, and avoid fines

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FortiCloud can help with your wireless and security challenges in a number of ways. Our solution addresses common IT difficulties including time-consuming provisioning, high investment costs, complex management, vulnerability to advanced threats, and the need to easily scale with growth.

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